Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Wheeless, University of Washington; Brianna Blaser, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

a longitudinal tracking assessment. The annual evaluation has been an assessmentfixture of the program since the mentoring program began in 1998. It asks participants questionsabout the frequency and type of contact between mentors and mentees, questions related toperceived impacts on retention and career planning, as well as others ways participants feel theprogram may have benefited them. The university’s student database is used to follow the Page 12.1059.2degree progress of mentoring students. The student database allows program staff to collectaccurate enrollment data about graduate students. Additionally, it allows program staff to

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Loshbaugh, Colorado School of Mines; Brittany Claar, Regis University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

a student enrolls into an institution perceivedas having a particular identity, s/he must engage with that identity and ultimately choose whetherto accept or reject it as personally relevant and desirable or tolerable. Engineering students,particularly at a STEM-intensive institution, must engage with the broader cultural perceptionthat engineers are geeks; at MT, students often refer to themselves and their peers as “engi-nerds,” so closely is the identity of an engineer tied to being geeky or nerdy. APS data indicatethat this process of identification is emergent; first-year students react differently than second-year students to the connection between geeks and engineers. The shift among MT students is todistance themselves from being

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Keating, University of South Carolina; Thomas Stanford, University of South Carolina; John Bardo, Western Carolina University; Duane Dunlap, Western Carolina University; Stephen Tricamo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Dennis Depew, Purdue University; Mark Schuver, Purdue University; Gary Bertoline, Purdue University; Albert McHenry, Arizona State University; Timothy Lindquist, Arizona State University; Joseph Tidwell, Boeing Co.; Mark Smith, Rochester Institute of Technology; Raymond Morrison, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.; Harvey Palmer, Rochester Institute of Technology; Norman Egbert; David Quick, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Mohammad Noori, California State Polytechnic University; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation; Edward Sullivan, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

competitiveness.Finding # 9: Policy blind spot exists in U.S. Science & Technology Policy and in U.S.professional engineering education. The disconnect between U.S. engineering graduate educationand creative engineering practice has neither occurred overnight nor by happenstance. It has occurredover the last four decades. While the nation has placed a deserved, increased federally fundedemphasis on basic academic research and on the graduate education of the nation’s future researchersduring the 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s [and must continue to do so], it has not placed a parallel andequal emphasis on advanced professional graduate education for the U.S. engineering workforce inindustry during this same time period which is the nation’s primary resource for

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronny Veljanovski, Victoria University; Alex Stojcevski, Victoria University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

of social, political and / or organizationalcontexts in the engineering discipline. These aspects are an integral part of the problems in theelectrical engineering units of study. By taking on and playing the persona of a role, learnerswere led to reflect on the material from the perspective of personal experience and identity. Thisdeep reflection was enhanced by being able to act out possibilities in a safe and collaborativeenvironment. In addition, learners were absorbed in situations and contexts that highlight thelearning outcomes and objectives of the engineering units of study.The project was carried out over two semesters in 2006 and was evaluated by student feedbackquestionnaires to determine whether the role playing platform had

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Egbert; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

educational institutions need to also embrace this initiativeto market engineering. The goal of such an activity should be to convince parents of theeconomic and societal value added by engineers and encourage them to influence their childrenaccordingly. Another needed step is to strengthen primary and secondary school teaching staffsin the areas of math and science. Having knowledgeable and enthusiastic teachers is a necessarystep to enlisting students into a technical career path.The lack of interest in STEM areas in the U.S. contributes significantly to the fact that thedeveloping countries are graduating multiples of the numbers of U.S. engineering graduates

Conference Session

Knowing our Students, Part 1

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reed Stevens, University of Washington; Daniel Amos, University of Washington; Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington; Lari Garrison, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

ethnographers from the United States to do ethnographic research in the People’s Republic of China. He has taught at five Chinese universities, and directed the Chinese Studies program at Clark Atlanta University. His graduate degrees are from UCLA (Anthropology, 1983) and the University of Chicago (Social Science-Psychology, 1974). He is currently an Acting Instructor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Washington.Andrew Jocuns, University of Washington Andrew Jocuns holds a PhD in Linguistics from Georgetown University. His research interests in include: classroom discourse and interaction; narrative analysis; mediated discourse; and pragmatics. He is currently

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

students a better context for analyzing the similarities, differences,linkages, and interactions between ethnic, cultural, gender/sexual, age-based, class, regional,national, transnational, and global identities. I will take the readings that I have already used andsupplement them with individual and group activities so that the students can better understandthe complexities of these issues. Also, I plan on giving the students more backgroundinformation about the topics in this class so that they can better meet the learning objective.Figure 5. Assessment results for Technology VS Women by semester for each GE andMUSE objective. Fall Fall Fall *Fall Total percent

Conference Session

New Tools in Teaching and Learning Biomedical Engineering Concepts

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vikki Hazelwood, Stevens Institute of Technology; Arthur Ritter, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Review Board at Stevens.Informed consent was obtained, and a sports medicine physician screened the health historiesprior to participation. A study proposal was prepared to satisfy all legal entities that the research,involving human subjects, would protect the privacy of the subjects, that it would be safe, andthat it would be worthy of the use of human subjects.Six students participated as part time research assistants. The researchers were initially trainedand subsequently mentored throughout the study by the Principal Investigator and the MedicalAdvisor, both of whom were Biomedical Engineering faculty. Five were undergraduates and onewas a graduate student. The graduate student performed the role of Investigator, and utilized thebody

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Romkey, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

humansKohlberg suggested that females might be less developed in the sequence than others, oftennot completing stages 4, 5 and 6. He suggested that females lag behind males because theyare not given the same opportunities or expectations in society (Langford36, 1995), whichhighlights some of our understanding about gender roles, stereotypes and socialization andhow these things affect confidence and career choice.Gilligan’s22 (1982) groundbreaking work, outlined in “In a Different Voice” describes the Page 12.295.14female’s own way in approaching morality, one that is not inferior nor superior to a male’smoral reasoning. Gilligan, a former graduate student

Conference Session

Approaches to Learning Outcomes Assessment in Liberal Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyle Oliver, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Traci Nathans-Kelly; Sandra Courter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Laura Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

expressedthan others, but the point is that a multi-genre “humanistic readings” approach coupled with anonline discussion forum that gets everyone involved seems to be an especially effective way tohelp students explore fruitful connections between the readings.Outcome 2: Recognize and work with the role of uncertainty in engineering and its relationshipto social and ethical dimensionsAs we mentioned above, we wanted to articulate a course outcome about uncertainty andambiguity because of very specific feedback our department has received from its industrialadvisory board. The goal here was to get students to grapple with problems in which, say, an

Conference Session

ChE: Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Robert Ofoli, Michigan State University; Dennis Miller, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

usinghelp me in finding a job once I graduate. ode45.I feel confident that I can extend my invert functions to and from the Laplaceknowledge of MATLAB if I need to. domain.Learning MATLAB has helped me to solve a set of N simultaneous, linearorganize my understanding of other equations in N unknowns.subjects (like physics). . . . plus eleven other questionsPre- and post-surveys were analyzed using SPSS and correlations to student performanceand personal data (gender, ACT scores, GPA, semesters since taking CSE 131, and otherparameters). The SPSS analysis was based on strength of the correlation (r) and asignificance level of p<0.05

Conference Session

International Distance & Service Learning for Engineers- Discussion on Best Practices

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Boschetto-Sandoval, Michigan Technological University; Ciro Sandoval, Michigan Technological University; Linda Phillips, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

International

task affords students practice in managingtheir literacy skills and negotiating between reading, writing, and speaking. Becausethese activities occur within real world constraints, comprehension is better understoodby students as a fundamental anchor for production. Students focus on language learningas collaborative praxis. Misidentifications (i.e. morder used to translate “to bite” whenreferencing mosquitoes) were clarified as a group when individual results werecompared in class, where speculation on a probable translation became an exercise incultural nuance. Page 12.1155.12As they moved from acts of synthesis and interpretation to translation

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew Mayhew, New York University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

“cheating” admitted to engaging in that behavior at least once. On the otherhand, 67% of those who defined it as “unethical but not cheating” and 78% of those who definedthe behavior as “neither” admitted to doing it at least once. This trend is similar for otherbehaviors, and it suggests that students who have a more permissive attitude towards a behaviorare, not surprisingly, more willing to engage in that behavior. This is consistent with work ofAjzen1, 2 who proposes a model of the decision-making process in which “attitude towardbehavior” plays an integral role in explaining the relationship between intention and action. Page

Conference Session

Systems Engineering and Entrepreneurship

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Karanian, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

: 1) What are the coreattributes that illustrate the unique entrepreneurial leader? 2) How does the entrepreneurialleader balance the effective role of entrepreneur and leader?2. Theory and AssertionsSubtle but dramatic forms of distinction exist between the definitions of leadership,entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial leadership. What form does entrepreneurial leadershiptake? On the basis of a review of the literature indicating both the importance and lack of clarityon defining entrepreneurial leadership and extending the revival of a personality andcharacteristic approach, the author reviewed both “lab study” and “field study” researchapproaches 35, 36, 37 and selected traits and concepts for study that emerged from intuitions

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

words with double meanings – I didn’t find it a problem …unless they turned round and apologised… TrishCivil engineering students, both male and female, were always strongly represented in theEngineering Students’ Society, and often took leadership roles. There seemed to be acontradiction between the image or stereotype of a Civil Engineer and the day-to-day realityas evidenced in Rebecca and Samuel’s comments: I think the key thing was that people expected it to be – so like you get a lot of pressure – you guys are Civil you’ re going to be like this – the individuals probably didn’t fit the stereotypes but when they got together there was a

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Kelly, Dublin Institute of Technology; Mike Murphy

Tagged Divisions

International

professional standards are less important than theability of the student or graduate to benefit as far as possible. Teaching is favoured overresearch and a Newmanite philosophy is preferred.The entrepreneurial view, suggests Trowler, is that vocationalism is favoured over theNewmanite ideal, skills over content and teaching over research. For the enterpriseacademic a binary divide between research universities and teaching institutes oftechnology is appropriate and protects against academic

Conference Session

MIND - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibironke Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

situations through the lens of their own self views and that individual differences exist in theway situations impact on people. Constructivist posit that humans actively create and construeour personal realities –that each person creates his or her own representational model of theworld and that this model does not simply act as a filter through which ongoing experience isperceived, but that the model actually creates and constrains new experience and so shapes whatthe person will perceive as “reality.”40Indeed research suggests a central role for the self in motivation and behavior.41 Thus, self viewsare important for understanding the persistent tendency for male and female students to separateinto different academic and career paths and the

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Off the Beaten Path

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Adams, Purdue University; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University; David Socha, University of Washington; Dawn Williams, Howard University; Ken Yasuhara

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

interests include multicultural education, identity construction, and interdisciplinarity.Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University Tori Rhoulac Smith began her appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Howard University in 2003. In this position, she fulfills a number of research, service, and both graduate and undergraduate course instruction roles. Dr. Rhoulac Smith’s primary area of research is in traffic operations and multimodal school transportation systems. She engages not only in transportation engineering research, but regularly conducts engineering education research projects and serves as the campus coordinator for the Learning Communities for Scientific

Conference Session

Effective Learning Innovations in Civil Engineering Courses

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Ledlie Klosky; Decker Hains; Timothy Johnson, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, USMA; Jakob Bruhl, US Military Academy, Dept of Civil & Mechanical Engineering; Jared B. Erickson, U.S. Military Academy; John Richards, D/CME, USMA

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

structural members and haverepetition of key mechanics of materials concepts before moving on to higher level courses must Page 12.217.15not be ignored. A better method than looking at the feedback from individual courses may be toconduct exit interviews with the graduating students to find out how they think the linkagebetween the two courses improved their level of understanding of mechanics of materials in theirhigher level engineering courses, or to compare student achievement directly by giving term endquestions identical to those used in the old CE364 at the end of the new CE364.Course Integration Lessons LearnedThe major lesson learned

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

team of over 40 academics and practitioners investigated methods for quantifying benefits from automation; the results of this project were published in a manuscript. Dr. Marlin is currently director of the McMaster Advanced Control Consortium (MACC), which develops relevant research through collaboration among university researchers and numerous companies. MACC consists of five professors, 17 industrial members and 25 university researchers, principally graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. He teaches university courses in process control, process analysis, problem solving, and optimization and has published a textbook in process control (Process Control, Designing

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Feldhaus, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Kenneth Reid; Pete Hylton; Marguerite Hart, Washington Township Schools; Kathy Rieke, Washington Township Schools; Douglas Gorham, IEEE

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

computers into the mathematicscurriculum provides many “higher-order” learning opportunities for students. It gives studentsreal life problems to solve and gives them insights into the methods that real mathematicians usein the quest for answers.10 A strong correlation has been found between the number and types oftechnologies used in a classroom and teacher access to his or her own computer beyond theschool day. An additional factor that impacts integration is the number of technology trainingworkshops teachers have attended.10 Research has given numerous ways computers canpositively affect the learning environment in a classroom and by increasing computer use in themathematics classroom elementary professional development programs can

Conference Session

Engineering Management Program Management / IE and EM Program Mangement / Engineering Management Program Management

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose Mary Cordova-Wentling, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; Raymond Price, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

regarding the need to modify the engineering curriculum in order to betterprepare engineering graduates to face the new challenges that the current engineeringenvironment presented. In 1994, “industry and academe realized that their concerns were thesame, [therefore] they began to mobilize through ABET, the organization responsible for settingthe standards of engineering education” (ABET, 2004, p. 1). As a result, the AccreditationBoard for Engineering and Technology (ABET) acknowledged this call from industry andeducational leaders, and started working towards changing the standards of engineeringeducation in order to guarantee that engineering students not only have an education in thetechnical disciplines of engineering but also in human